{"id":233762,"date":"2023-03-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.evearly.com\/fires-arent-an-ev-safety-concern-but-their-weight-is-warns-iihs\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:00:00","slug":"fires-arent-an-ev-safety-concern-but-their-weight-is-warns-iihs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/fires-arent-an-ev-safety-concern-but-their-weight-is-warns-iihs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fires aren&#8217;t an EV safety concern but their weight is, warns IIHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.evearly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fires-arent-an-ev-safety-concern-but-their-weight-is-warns-iihs.jpg\"><br \/>EV fires tend to get a lot of attention, but the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) warns that EVs&#8217; added weight\u2014and the damage it can inflict on other road users\u2014is the real safety concern. &#8220;Fifty-five EV crash tests and zero fires later, I&#8217;m still worried about these batteries, but for a more mundane reason than&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1139037_fires-not-ev-safety-concern-weight-is-warns-iihs\" target='bwindow' rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/fires-arent-an-ev-safety-concern-but-their-weight-is-warns-iihs\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}